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Czech participation at Bookfest

(This article expired 03.06.2019.)

On 31 May 2014, Ambassador Jiří Šitler attended the launching of two new books within the project “Cartea ceha” (Czech Book) of the Curtea Veche Publishing – Letters to Dubenka by Bohumil Hrabal and A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova by Arnošt Lustig.

Present at the launching at the Bookfest Interrnational Book Fair in Bucharest were the two new Czech books´ translators Mircea Dan Duţă, former Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Prague, and Anca Irina Ionescu, as well as writer and professor of literature Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu.

On 1 June 2014, Ambassador Jiří Šitler together with Ambassador of Poland Marek Szczygiel participated in the presentation of the Romanian translation of „Gottland“ by Polish author Mariusz Szczygiel, a collection of essays on Czech people and Czechia that had been translated into many languages. The book has been published by the ART Publishing whose editor-in-chief Laura Albulescu presented the book to Romanian readers.